Mali & Niger 2006 > Mali / Burkina Faso / Niger > Ouagadougou & Tiebele

The highlight of our visit to Ouagadougou was the music. After walking through several dusty rooms in La Musée de la Musique de Ouagadougou containing old instruments we couldn't touch or hear, we were shown to an auditorium where there was a live band playing on those instruments. The best drumming we heard the whole trip was that afternoon. These people call themselves Tagnin Percussion but they don't have a CD or anything. They do rate a mention on the museum's web page. I think they are a little sad that primarily tourists are listening to the traditional music of Burkina Faso now, and everybody else is, you know, Wutang ... maybe if copyrights were strictly enforced, it would have the effect of cutting down invasive weed trees in the forest of the world's indigenous music.
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